Apprehension Quotes

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
William Shakespeare

Work, God, Moving

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
Isaac Newton

True, May, Understand

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Reality, Often, Suffer

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
Honore de Balzac

Love, Wisdom, Through

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
William Shenstone

Fear, Jealousy, Envy

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.
Herbert Read

Experience, Human, Progress

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
Pliny the Elder

Fear, May, Happen

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
Alfred North Whitehead

Life, Forward, Human

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Beauty, Comparison, Relation

The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of mortality shifts somewhere deep in the mind. It is the most ancient of our fears.
Lewis Thomas

Mind, Deep, Wrong

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
Maimonides

Power, Respect, Person

Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts.
Lewis Thomas

Science, Today, May

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.
Caroline Kennedy

Great, Excitement, Adult

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
Henri Bergson

Reality, Necessary, Intellect

It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up hating each other. So I just thought they needed telling really, in case they were labouring under the apprehension that they were still friends.
Peter Hook

End, Thought, Friends

If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever.
George Berkeley

Human, Strange, Miracle

As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects.
Solomon Ortiz

Life, Pain, Father

One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate.
Charles Sturt

Life, Success, Bad

Apprehension is natural, but it must not be concluded that it is a threat. Certainly not.
Sellapan Ramanathan

Natural, Threat, Concluded

We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph's trail. It was evident, by the traces, that large parties were a few days in advance of us; and as we too supposed them to be Mormons, we had some apprehension of interruption.
Francis Parkman

Before, Few, Days

The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.
Roland Allen

Men, Spiritual, Moved

There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.
Dan Reynolds

Before, Try, Excitement

Ruskin believed that everyone had visual as well as verbal capacities that needed to be developed in order to become a complete human being, and that the apprehension of truth depended on the power of observation.
Robert Hewison

Power, Truth, Human

He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace.
Eugene Field

Someone, Play, Else

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